Creating an OpenSolaris Live USB installer
With my eagerness to start using the 4TB of disk and the lack of a spare slim DVD drive. I decided to put my Sun CEC gifted 4GB pendrive to use and to install the live OpenSolaris installer onto it. Enabling myself not only to build the home server but also to take OpenSolaris with me to install on any system I need to. The process for creating the UBS drive is a simple one and the steps are below:
If your installer does not have the OpenSolaris SUNWdistro-const packages the first step is to install those packages from IPS.
# pkg install SUNWdistro-const
# cd /usr/bin
# ./usbgen /var/tmp/osol-0811.iso /var/tmp/os0811.usb /var/tmp
# ./usbcopy /var/tmp/os0811.usb
Once complete you can then set your default boot device and boot. This is not the most optimum use of a 4GB pen drive and I'm really interested in some of the work others have completed in both making the usb drive as a complete install along with creating a multi boot implementation.
